George Curry is the former editor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service. He was also editor-in-chief of Emerge magazine, which, under his leadership, won more than 40 national journalism awards. Curry is a former Washington correspondent and New York bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune. He was also a reporter for Sports Illustrated and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In 2003, the National Associatiom of Black Journalists named him "Journalist of the Year."
His column, "Beyond the Spin," appears every other Thursday on The Inquirer's Commentary Page.
More than 20 percent of those in the U.S. with the disease don't know they have it.
It happened nearly 20 years ago, when I was living in New York City, but I remember it as clearly as if it happened earlier today. A female friend called me in a panic and said she feared her boyfriend had infected her with HIV, and she was afraid to get tested.
Before Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's choice to fill a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court, could get outside the White House gate after the announcement of her nomination, conservatives were already on the attack.
- Somalia's broader problems pose a major threat to the entire Horn of Africa.Like most Americans, I closely followed the capture and dramatic rescue of Capt. Richard Phillips, which culminated when three Navy SEAL marksmen killed pirates who had hijacked his freighter ship, the Maersk Alabama, off the coast of Somalia. When I learned that Phillips' life had been saved, I rejoiced - not because he is an American, but because he is a human.
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Despite efforts to portray himself more of a centralist, Barack Obama is decidedly liberal. Notwithstanding efforts to make John McCain appear to be a maverick, he is definitely conservative, having voted with President Bush 95 percent of the time in the last session of Congress, according to Congressional Quarterly.
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